The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 57

Then the little man turned to the wondering youth and said: ‘See, here is the sleeping child!

Who acts: little man · What happens: turn, wonder, say, see, be · To what, where: wondering youth, sleeping child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 turned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 youth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youth	det
8	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 youth	amod
9	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 See	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 See	punct
14	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 here	punct
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 See	advmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 here	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 child	det
19	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 child	amod
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 See	obj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the little man		the wondering youth	then		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to youth=Trajectory
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	the little man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	infinitive		the sleeping child				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
5	is	present					here property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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